 | English literature - 1872 - 614 pages
...lives to come, to learn somewhat more of Him of whom old Hooker said well, that ' though to know Him be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet...Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him, and that our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, whereby we confess without confession that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 616 pages
...lives to come, to learn somewhat more of Him of of whom old Hooker said well, that ' though to know Him be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet...Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him, and that our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, whereby we confess without confession that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 620 pages
...lives to come, to learn somewhat more of Him of whom old Hooker said well, that ' though to know Him be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet...Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him, and that our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, whereby we confess without confession that... | |
 | Science - 1882 - 966 pages
...the gospel of science with regard to the Unknowable is but the echo of the words of Hooker, that " our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him...our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence." The chief objection that any naturalistic scheme of religion has to encounter comes from those who,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Unitarian churches - 1873 - 344 pages
...and tender phrase the thought of generations of theologians, divines, and mystics : " It is dangerous for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings...him not as indeed he is, neither can know him, and that our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, whereby we confess without confession that... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - Literature and morals - 1874 - 478 pages
...; but Hooker, in an eloquent paragraph, gives a phase to the thought as sublime aa it is devout. " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our siloncn, when we confess without confession, that His glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our... | |
 | Arminianism - 1874 - 1198 pages
...transgression ; and secondly, the actual forms it has assumed. " Dangerous it were," ьаув Hooker, " for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be Ufe, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that wo know Him not... | |
 | Isaac Plant Fleming - English language - 1875 - 382 pages
...elevation, contraction, depart, probability, ridiculous, transgression, veracious, fortitude. 8. Analyse : ' Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...know Him not as indeed he is, neither can know Him.' 9. Parse: 'Ay me ! ay me ! with what another heart In days far-off, and with what other eyes I used... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...that are desired : no good is infinite but only God, therefore he is our felicity and bliss. HOOKER. Whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention...know him; and our safest eloquence concerning him is silence. HOOKER. As teaching bringeth us to know that God is our supreme truth, so prayer testifieth... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Sermons, English - 1876 - 330 pages
...is expressed in an often quoted passage from a celebrated English divine : " It is indeed dangerous for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings...most High, whom although to know be life, and joy to 17 make mention of his name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not, as indeed... | |
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Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know... 
